/*
 * Copyright 2016 Miroslav Janíček
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */

package net.sandius.rembulan;

/**
 * A mapping from values to a string representation of their type.
 */
public interface ValueTypeNamer {

	/**
	 * Returns the type name (a byte string) of the value {@code instance}.
	 *
	 * @param instance  the object in question, may be {@code null}
	 * @return  the type name of {@code instance}
	 */
	ByteString typeNameOf(Object instance);

}
